Variola Vera

A grim, historically grounded medical thriller about a smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia that transforms a hospital into a quarantined death trap, exploring systemic failure and collective dread.

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.